The Sausage Conundrum
 

If I take a sausage link, take the casing off, and flatten the meat out into a disc shape, it's still a sausage.

But if I take a burger and roll it up into a link shape does it become a sausage? And if it does, if I flatten it back into a disc again is it STILL a sausage now?

Money is riding on this......:frown:

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No and no

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A sausage is sausage, with or without the skin...a burger? that's just nasty!:lol:

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The rolled up ground meat would only be a sausage if you were to encase it in skin.

So just rolling it does not make it a sausage.

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I say no and yes. The name refers to the shape.

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Yes but....

1) A sausage patty isn't in skin.

2) Encasing a burger in skin wouldn't make it a sausage would it?

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I think it would. Sausages are normally sold encased. Patties are only the same meat as used in the encased version. Therefore it is called a sausage patty.

Sausage links can contain any type of stuffing and it is considered a sausage.

Many people call burgers 'patties'.

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I love blue..

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So a skinless sausage is not a sausage at all?:eek:
http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product...sages/47264011 for example

I'm with Sally;)

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No and No

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The question seems to be - is a burger made out of sausage meat?

Technically, I think you'd have to say it basically was, although it's very unlikely you'd call it a sausage patty if you made it into a traditional burger shape.

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My take on it.

If you take a sausage link and take the casing off, you have sausage meat, but not a sausage.

If you flatten it out into a disc shape you have merely created a sausage meat patty.

A burger is not made of sausage meat, so the shape is irrelevant. That aside, since sausages don't have to be made of sausage meat, since it wasn't in a casing, it wasn't a true sausage anyway. It is only "sausage shaped".

The "skinless" sausage is still a sausage, because it still has a casing, albeit a very thin one.

Otherwise you couldn't have skinless sausage casings, which are described in this complaint.

Burger meat in a casing would technically be a sausage - albeit a particularly nasty one!:(

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It doesn't need a skin to be a sausage...in the UK there are skinless sausages.

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Please take a bow! :thumbup: